| Seniors Suffer Under Obama/AARP/PhRMA "Healthcare Reform" |
| Statement by 60 Plus Association President Jim Martin |
| Alexandria, VA-All Americans, especially seniors, want and deserve affordable and accessible healthcare.
But attaining that goal will be next to impossible under the Obama Administration's p |
Jun. 22, 2009 3:09 PM
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| Seniors Urge Congress to Oppose Federal Renewable Energy Standards |
| A Federal RES will impose unnecessary and burdensome costs on senior citizens |
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The 60 Plus Association, a national nonpartis |
Jun. 16, 2009 10:19 AM
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| MARTIN: Seniors hard hit |
| Washington Times Editorial |
| Very few Americans have been able to isolate or immunize themselves from today's economic hardships, but for America's seniors and working families, the impact is even more sever... |
Jun. 14, 2009 10:11 AM
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| 60 Plus' "Mainstreet Bondholders" Reject New GM Offer |
| New Deal Leaves Seniors & Retirees With Almost Nothing |
| Main Street Bondholders today dismissed GM’s new debt-for-equity exchange proposal citing the gross unfairness in giving unions an estimated five times more dollar value per claim than the small bondholders... |
May. 29, 2009 3:33 PM
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| Are you a worried GM bondholder? |
| Senior citizens stand to lose in General Motors negotiations with the Obama Administration |
| A General Motors bankruptcy would be devastating to GM employees, hundreds of thousands of people employed by suppliers, dealerships, bondholders and our economy as whole... |
Apr. 27, 2009 5:34 PM
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| Robbing Peter to Pay Paul |
| Print more money to finance health care! |
| Arlington, VA – The President wants $634 billion dollars over 10 years as a “down payment” to finance health care. Since the President and this Congress are dealing in fantasy numbers, why not double, |
Feb. 27, 2009 9:20 AM
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| Mother's Milk of Politics |
| by: James L. Martin |
| In 1962, I covered Congress as a reporter for a news bureau that included the Tampa (Fla.) Tribune, the Columbia (S.C.) State, the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, WFLA-(Tampa) TV, 50,000-watt radio stations |
Dec. 8, 2008 11:26 AM
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| Strong-arming seniors will be the death of Medicare |
| By Pat Boone and Jim Martin |
Only in Washington could a supposedly self-funded government program that's op |
Dec. 1, 2008 1:45 PM
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| Seniors' Group Criticizes Hagan/DSCC Age Distortion Attack on Senator Dole |
| "Insulting to Real Seniors" |
Arlington, VA – The head of a senior citizens’ organization called an attack ad aimed at Senator Elizabeth Dole “rude and frankly insulting to real senior citizens.”
“I know Senator D |
Aug. 18, 2008 1:50 PM
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| Seniors Support Pickens Plan |
| Statement by 60 Plus Assoc. Pres. Jim Martin |
| Arlington, VA - The 60 Plus Association today endorsed the “Pickens Plan,” an energy campaign launched earlier this week by Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens, to offset foreign oil imports with domestic e |
Jul. 14, 2008 1:58 PM
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| Seniors Hurt by Taxing Energy Producers |
| Bill hinders U.S. energy companies |
| WASHINGTON-The 60 Plus Association today warned that the Consumers-First Energy Act of 2008 “contains anti-market provisions and places domestic energy companies at a competitive disadvantage by hinde |
Jun. 10, 2008 1:56 PM
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| Why is domestic energy exploration off limits? |
| Comments by 60 Plus President Jim Martin, "Energy Day" Cannon Caucus Rm., May 22 '08 |
| Washington, DC - Good morning, I’m Jim Martin, President of the 60 Plus Association.
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I would like to have the following enigma, wrapped inside a mystery, exp |
May. 22, 2008 2:07 PM
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| Seniors' Group Head Criticizes PA Congressman |
| Murtha's Political Remarks Insulting |
| Washington, DC – The head of a senior citizens’ organization called on Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) to apologize to older Americans for his thoughtless remarks yesterday that John McCain is ‘too old to be |
Apr. 17, 2008 5:55 PM
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| Congress Getting Stupider and Stupider? |
| No, Only a Minority of Congress |
| Statement by James L. Martin, President, 60 Plus Association, on Tax Day Press Event, 930am,
April 15, 2008, National Press Club, Zenger Room, Sponsored by Americans for Tax Reform
Wash |
Apr. 15, 2008 5:33 PM
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| Seniors' Chief Chastises Congressional Inaction |
| Trustees Report over Crisis with Social Security and Medicare |
| Arlington, VA - “They’re embezzlers and should be locked up. Congress continues to con seniors by stealing money from their Social Security Trust Fund and spending it on non-senior’s programs.
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Mar. 27, 2008 9:25 AM
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| Gunfight Smoke May Be Clearing |
| Supreme Court Readies Ruling |
| Arlington, VA – The 60 Plus Association, filing a friend of the court brief allowing individuals the right to keep and bear arms, said it was “cautiously optimistic” that the U.S. Supreme Court would |
Mar. 19, 2008 11:15 AM
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